Lynn Guest
Enter Pale Death
In Suffolk, 1933, the wife of a promising politician is trampled to death by a vicious stallion. Although this has…
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
The McGhees, a black family freed from slavery, flee the Jim Crow laws and poverty of post-Civil War Alabama for…
The Gage Street Courtesan
Under a layer of Victorian respectability, colonial Hong Kong was a seething hodgepodge of failed revolutionaries, crooks, opium dealers, Jewish…
The Highwayman’s Daughter
1768. Jack Blythe, heir to an earldom, and his wastrel cousin, Rupert, are returning from London when their carriage is…
Don’t Pass Me By
London, 1940. Desperate to escape from Billy, her violent soldier husband, Lydia seizes the chance when a blast destroys their…
Turning the Stones
In 18th-century Cheshire, Em Smith, a foundling, was fostered by the Waterland family, first as a playmate and later as…
Triangle Trade
1805. When Lieutenant William King is relieved of his command in the Royal Navy, he returns home to Liverpool where…
Imagining Vietnam
McLean gives us a pocket history of Vietnam in the form of eight short stories, each set in a period…
Close to the Wind
When Georgiana da Silva overhears her fiancé discussing a plot to murder her beloved brother Charlie, who is hoping to…
The Year of the Horsetails
Early Middle Ages, Eastern Europe. Nomadic hordes, the fierce Turgons under the rule of their charismatic leader, the Kagan, have…
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